InterCoast Colleges-Fairfield
For-profit College in Fairfield, CA. Median 10-year earnings $36,089.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,089, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Median debt at graduation is $10,313, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention is strong at 92%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 15:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 253 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $20,383 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($20,120 versus $26,136), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 59% get grants averaging $6,319, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 72% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 194 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $20,120 |
| $30–48k | $20,488 |
| $48–75k | $21,467 |
| $75–110k | $24,136 |
| $110k+ | $26,136 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 181 of these 253 students, totalling $1,482,207 — an average of $8,189 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Solano County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026